January 12, 2017

Favored by Strange Gods: A Selection of Letters to Joanna Russ 4

Ellen Datlow

Renowned science fiction and horror editor Ellen Datlow discusses her relationship with the work of science fiction author James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) and reads a letter from Tiptree to fellow SF writer Joanna Russ.

On January 11, 2017, the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, celebrated Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens with a reading from the historic selection of letters from Tiptree to Russ that appeared in that issue (in which which all but one letter made their first appearance in print).

The renowned SF, fantasy, and horror editor Ellen Datlow has served as Omni’s fiction editor, as well as the editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction, and the series editor for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She is currently a consulting editor with Tor.com, the editor of Best Horror of the Year, and the cohost for KGB Bar’s Fantastic Fiction reading series. She has received two Hugo Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, ten World Fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, twelve Locus Awards, and the Horror Writers Association Life Achievement Award.

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